The slow goodbye between Alberto Fernández and Nicolás Maduro

Argentine President Alberto Fernández in an image from August this year.Reuters

On Tuesday afternoon, the Argentine ambassador to the United Nations, Federico Villegas Beltrán, shook the Latin American geopolitics board by endorsing the Bachelet report, which details the egregious human rights violations committed by the Venezuelan government.

That report was endorsed by 22 of the 25 countries in the region.

But the most painful vote for Maduro was that of Argentina, because this country is governed by Kirchnerism, an old friend.

The Argentine pronouncement, as will be seen, is something more than a strong foreign policy gesture ...

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